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In his latter days, as when he was young,
The tatler indulges in rattle of tongue.
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The missing words indicated in the lines which begin
A cylindrical lock
Where no key can be found.
are a ringlet, triangle, relating, altering, and integral, which are all spelt with the same eight letters.
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The lines with missing words, which are increased each time by one letter, run thus:—